Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly.

It's the 11th of September 2025.

I'm your host, Chris Gallowher, for this week,

given Barry another wee week off.

We are going to talk about Glasgow Celtic in detail.

It's been a troubling week, shall we say, from the Celtic fandom's perspective. I'm going to introduce the panel now. Barry Galaher is here. Hello, Barry. How are you, sir? I'm keeping it concise this week. Thank you. I'm down with the thing last week. Good to hear from you, Barry. And of course, our good friend, Stuart, Dougan, hello, Stuart. How are you, my friend? I'm good. I am also good. Good stuff. We have had a topsy, turvy, roller coaster of a week from a Celtic point of view. We'll talk through most of it. We maybe give a little bit of a timely. If you are a subscriber

to the cynic, which you can do at the cynic.com or you can check us out on Patreon by searching

for the cynic. We have touched on some of these points this week, but we've got a different panel

now, so maybe give a different perspective. And I think that's one of the joys of having an extended amount of contributors. Can I get my words out? Open any question. Let's just start. Let's get into it. And there is a lot to cover, and there is some breaking stuff to cover as well. So, like anything else comes out, we'll bring up as quickly as we can. But the opening question is, how has this week felt for you as a Celtic supporter, Stuart Duggan? I think quite long. When I read that and I thought back to some of the stuff, well, some of the stuff that we're going to talk about tonight. And I was like, was that that week? Was that last week? Do we not talk about this last week?

But I suppose from when we were here last Thursday, it was a lot of stuff with the fallout, about the window. Maida had made his comments by then, hadn't they? No, that was the Friday. Right. So we've not really touched on that. Yeah, so on the Friday you get the Maeda stuff. on the Saturday you get the statement

you get the

open letter

that happened So on the Friday you get the Maeda stuff. On the Saturday you get the statement.

You get the open letter.

That happened last week?

No, we don't.

We discussed that last week.

So Friday was that dies on Saturday during the day was briefing against the manager.

Briefing against the man.

Fucking these things that I've even forgotten about.

And then you get the statement the fallout

the statement you get the votes of no confidence you get the fan groups coming together

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